Agree with the definition of leadership
Mr. Guo Hongwei (Jacky) used a story to explain the definition of identity leadership at the beginning:
Imagine a picture of two armies fighting each other, and the general shouts, “Charge!” There will be several situations.
One is that no one wants to charge, one is that everyone follows you forward, and the other is that the general has not yet shouted, as long as the two armies face each other, everyone will charge forward and kill the enemy bravely. Good executives, what kind of situation do you want to go through?
“Subordinates are able to be automatic, know when to do something, and what to do. It is the subtle power generated by the recognition of leadership that can lead the transformation and change of the organization.
Identify with leadership traits
Professor Jiang Dingyu analyzed the characteristics of identity leaders from the perspective of Social Identity Theory: “People will actively look for groups or individuals who can psychologically belong based on their personal similarities or expectations. In addition to defining how we feel and where we are, this emotional connection can also help us distinguish ourselves from others. 」
The psychological stages of identity include: cooperation and obedience, trust and convincing, identification and following, and allegiance to life and death. We need to establish a certain kind of psychological connection with others, and through identification, we can establish an emotional connection that transcends the relationship of interest.
Identify with the strengths and cores of leadership|Leader trait analysis
The core components of identity leadership can be divided into four types:
- Excellence|Admirable achievements and execution ability, enhance trust
- Vision|Provide a dream that can be imagined and are willing to chase together, we are all living for the future.
- Social prestige|Resources and connections in the industry can make subordinates proud.
- Establish an excellent core team
The four elements from recognition to effective leadership are to master these four competencies. Once mastered by mastering these four competencies, leaders can easily:
- Lead organizational change and transformation|Make subordinates willing to make changes
- Improve organizational centripetal force|Improve organizational efficiency
- Willing to take responsibility for the initiative in order to help leaders and the company succeed
- Psychologically based leadership model allows others to have something to follow
An example of an excellent leader: Star Aviation
Professor Jiang Dingyu used an example to illustrate how Chairman Zhang Guowei of Xingyu Airlines showed the core ingredients of identity leadership:
- “Without steely willpower, it’s hard to survive.”
- Vision|Show Taiwan’s cultural and creative platform
- Social prestige|Brave to burn money to make dreams, the most respected airline operator
- We don’t know about this yet, but at present, it seems that the retention of Xingyu Aviation is not too much of a problem.
Recognition can attract people, but this attractive thing is not acceptable to everyone. False identity leadership is to unite identity through deception and control. For example, Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos (2003-2017) used deception and disguise to maintain a semblance of goodness. Or Shoko Asahara, an Amu Shinrikyo religion, who emphasizes the concentration of power, opposes any voice of doubt, and regards disagreement as a betrayal.
Strengthen the cultivation of identity leadership skills
Finally, Professor Jiang pointed out that identity leadership can be cultivated through training, and it is possible to build one’s own “thread” in four steps:
- Vision Communication is a persuasive expression of one’s ideas and ideas.
- Authenticity Honestly and rationally face your own shortcomings, and confidently show your personal strengths.
- Risk Taming requires an adventurous personality to achieve things that ordinary people can’t
- Positive feedback Have the courage to express affirmation and support to subordinates
The way of long-term leadership of the organization|Agree with the leadership
Yang Baichuan first emphasized that what Xinyi Housing has been doing originally contains so many structures that identify with leadership. So what is the chief of ethics doing? The chief of ethics is a person who wants everyone to think about corporate ethics together, and how to think about corporate ethics in order to bring value to enterprises and society.
Recognition of leadership is a very important element to lead the organization forward and reduce organizational costs.
Yang Baichuan asked more deeply: Who is the subject of the object of identification? Is it the individual’s knowledge, wishes, and deeds? The organization’s system and behavioral norms, and the core values that affect people’s hearts?
In fact, these three levels run through, and the level of identity starts from a person’s words and deeds, to the system and norms of the entire organization, and finally boils down to a core value.
Implement core values of recognized leadership behaviors
Yang Baichuan explained more specifically how to play the role of identity to lead the operation of the organization, which must be reflected by specific behaviors. There should be a structure for the argument infrastructure of the organizational philosophy for everyone to understand. In order to make the core value a bottom-up daily practice process. If ideas, ideas and behaviors can be integrated, they must be implemented in the system and become a top-down insistence.
Taking Xinyi Enterprise Group as an example, Xinyi Housing’s founding purpose: “Xinyi Founding, Stopping at Perfection” “We firmly believe in eternal value, passionately realize the dream of family business, share each unique story, and jointly achieve a rich life, harmonious growth, and endless growth”
The founder, Mr. Zhou, never talks about performance, he talks about his views on his business, the value he wants to convey in serving customers, he talks about his imagination of the Taiwanese community, he is talking about his ideals.
Xinyi Housing’s talent development system emphasizes “righteousness before profit, people-oriented”, do the right thing first, and then create wealth in the right way. On the institutional side, if someone leads you to engage in meaningful and valuable work, you know that you have not lived in vain. In terms of talent cultivation, colleagues are regarded as business partners, and there is a complete set of education, training and counseling mechanisms to cultivate talents.
Wonderful Q & A
Jiang Dingyu: The most important thing for a company is identity and mission, and Xinyi Housing uses different methods to discuss this matter and implement it in the system. For the average junior executive, there may not be so many resources. But it is agreed that leadership can be developed gradually, for example: know how to use people, build the team of the future, try to challenge the status quo, and lead the team to take risks and innovate. Identifying with leadership itself is a model of leadership that sells ideals, and when we do it, ideals are more than just ideals. If we want to believe, we need to practice continuous discourse.
Yang Baichuan: Individuals can use the model of identifying with leadership to have an impact on the people around them. For example, creating trust, doing what you say, treating others first, and doing these things makes an individual impact, and there is no difference between large and small businesses. The level of the position will have different levels of impact, but if everyone in the organization agrees with the idea, the results will come out. Start as an individual leader and lead by example. At the same time, the design of the system should also implement the core values.
Jiang Dingyu: Academia’s tendency to leadership can be cultivated through acquired education and training, but in fact, many personalities are linked to genes, so there must be innate factors. Choosing a leader can never rely on acquired training, which is why we have a selection mechanism. Leaders must first be able to “do things for others”, which is an innate character. Compared with other leadership aspects, the identity leader attaches more importance to personal demeanor. When you do what others can’t, it creates charisma.
Yang Baichuan: For enterprises, we choose to believe that they can be trained to do so, and we believe that we will continue to educate employees to become leaders.
Jiang Dingyu: Morality itself is constructed by human beings, and we have core values. Morality is related to identity, but there is no strong connection.
Yang Baichuan: Money is a tangible world, morality is an invisible world, “the world’s great wealth, the virtuous live in it”, take it in the right way, you can connect the two worlds.
Yang Baichuan: Actively and courageously put forward suggestions, starting from the people around you.
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